welcome to the relaunch!

Well here it is, at long last I have finally updated and revamped my personal website.  It has been many years since I even did small updates, and at least a decade since I did any major work. But finally, the time had come to update or move on to other platforms for content management.

Being a technology geek, I was an early adopter of buying my own domain and maintaining  a personal website.  I bought this domain and web hosting space back in the late 90's - long before Facebook or Twitter, and even before early "social" sites like Geocities or MySpace.  I spent many hours creating and maintaining this site - adding content, uploading pictures, adding pages, and even downloading the site traffic logs and analyzing what kind of hits and traffic I was getting, and how many page views I was getting.

But over the years, I spent less and less time maintaining this site.  I reduced the number of pages numerous times (at one point I had nearly 50 different pages here) and to help streamline the upkeep.  And then came the advent of social media like Facebook in the early 2000's.  Now it was quick and easy to share information and pictures, and the need for a personal website faded away.

So this site got stale.  Like REALLY stale.  Like 10 years stale.

So why resurrect it now? Well, with my now-heavy involvement in the AFOL (Adult Fans of LEGO) community, and my wanting to share my work, I was faced with a decision - start using a platform like Instagram or my Google Photos account to share pictures and content, or finally bite the bullet and update my website that I'm shelling out money for.  (I still need the domain for other reasons, so dropping it was not an option).

And as you can see the "use the website I'm shelling out money for" option won, and I'm not mad about it.  I cut down the number of pages to four, expanded my use of a picture gallery script to manage the pictures, and refreshed the overall design.  These pages themselves shouldn't need a lot of upkeep, and adding new pictures is a cinch, so hopefully I'll keep up with things.

So that's the story.  I'm glad to have you here.  Welcome to my site and enjoy!

Scott "Skip" Concilla
skipc @ pobox.com